Was 4.13 this morning on my walk. It went up both Saturday (yesterday) and today!
market was down on Friday; I expect it will turn down more Monday ...
Warm day today--104 but the rest of the week will be a little less or the same temps. Just normal for this time in June.
gas prices I've been keeping track of since Katrina, September 2005 at: //http://www.shambalayogi.net/Unknown/oilnew.html
cheers,
shamba
Sunday, June 8, 2008
Friday, June 6, 2008
A Warm Day's Walk in June
Temp only about 98 today--we've not had out triple digits much yet. So, midday walking was okay.
Walked up towards the gas station/Basha's store. Gas was posted at 4.05. Every other day the past 10 days it's gone up 3-5 cents it seems. I expected to see $4.00 since it had been 3.97 on wednesday. I filled up at another station for less on Wednesday in Awhuatukee since I was over there to see Lori--That is about 20 miles from where I live.
Watching the gas price at this one station go up the past 2 weeks has impressed me more than a lot of other things how "now" the change coming for the world are here in the present.
On my walk, I saw many purple sages in full bloom, so in bloom that the flowers are weighing the limbs of the plants down. I've never seen purple sages so full of flowers and the ones along the canal were full, full of bees. That, of course, is good, if the bees make it back to their hive okay with their pollen! There were also a mom duck and her 4 ducklings swimming in the canal. I've seen moms and babies in that canal all year round even in November and December. Also, some other ducks were out sitting on the side of the canal where people and cyclist actually go by. they weren't fussed at all about me walking by. I need some pics of these things!
Cleaned up the back patio of the dead cat's claw and cleaned out all the empty plant pots. The aloe are the colorless grey green they get when they're in the sun too much but they are still growing.
cheers,
shamba
Walked up towards the gas station/Basha's store. Gas was posted at 4.05. Every other day the past 10 days it's gone up 3-5 cents it seems. I expected to see $4.00 since it had been 3.97 on wednesday. I filled up at another station for less on Wednesday in Awhuatukee since I was over there to see Lori--That is about 20 miles from where I live.
Watching the gas price at this one station go up the past 2 weeks has impressed me more than a lot of other things how "now" the change coming for the world are here in the present.
On my walk, I saw many purple sages in full bloom, so in bloom that the flowers are weighing the limbs of the plants down. I've never seen purple sages so full of flowers and the ones along the canal were full, full of bees. That, of course, is good, if the bees make it back to their hive okay with their pollen! There were also a mom duck and her 4 ducklings swimming in the canal. I've seen moms and babies in that canal all year round even in November and December. Also, some other ducks were out sitting on the side of the canal where people and cyclist actually go by. they weren't fussed at all about me walking by. I need some pics of these things!
Cleaned up the back patio of the dead cat's claw and cleaned out all the empty plant pots. The aloe are the colorless grey green they get when they're in the sun too much but they are still growing.
cheers,
shamba
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
When will it happen? I think it's here NOW!
Regular gas: 3.97, 4.07, 4.17.
I have decided that all of the signs of the Big Day of Reckconing/downfall of fossifuel society/modern society/The Shit Hitting the Fan--is NOW! My readings in Doom have become main stream current events!
So, many things that I’ve been reading about for the past 3 ½ years were still “over the horizon.” Now, they are easily visible on the horizon and they’ve got us pretty well surrounded! Food prices, energy prices, gas prices, still bad drought in the US West, bees still in low supply this spring, no salmon fishing AT ALL on the west coast because of too small salmon populations—this is commercial fishing, too. Then there’s the daily business world in my state which probably applies to most other states these days: contracting economy, local governments budgets cut this year and facing more severe ones in the next year after that, property taxes revenue falling because of the shrinking housing market ….. which still shows no sign of bottoming out yet. Too much inventory and it’s growing because of foreclosures, new constructions finishing, etc.
In the NBC broadcast news this evening:
Airlines are cutting back severely on scheduled flights for the rest of the year; or after summer vacations. It’s just too expensive to keep flying the current schedules with the price of oil and their fuel needs. Major airports will have cutbacks in carriers and some smaller places will end up with very few carriers, even if they have been regional jets. Two years ago on The Oildrum.com I read some comment about an airline worker(?) at a conference remarking that in 10 years no planes will be flying at all, at least no commercial airlines.
GM is closing 4 plants that make SUV stuff; and they may discontinue the Hummer model! Hummers’ were quite the thing to have the past few years. Truck and SUV sales have not been good since the first of the year.
Quote from: Truck Sales Sink, Shaking Up Auto Market
Big Three Walloped By the Rush to Cars; Honda on the Rise
By JOSÉE VALCOURT and MATTHEW DOLANJune 4, 2008; Page B5 from WSJ
"Ford Motor Co.'s F-150 pickup truck has been the No. 1 seller almost every month over the past three decades. But in May, as consumers flocked to fuel-sipping models, two cars from Toyota and two from Honda Motor Co. outsold the F-150, pushing it down to the No. 5 spot in sales."
Electric cars are in the news again; or they seem to be more in the news to me.
There is some market in electricity prices—forward market?—that shows the fluctuations in electricity supply and prices. These fluctuations don’t appear on customer’s energy bills but it can predict the rise or fall of prices. There was a spike in this prices/supply in Mar/April and it showed a “75%” possible increase in electricity prices this summer. I don’t know if this applies to the whole US or what. It was in the WSJ on June 3 or 4th. I’ll try to find the link to it.
At least the **** Democratic primaries are over! Senator Obama looks like a definite for the Demo nominee; but I wouldn’t rule out senator Clinton trying something eve at the last minute to try again to get the position herself.
It seems quite a turnaround from the way things stood in public discourse and the national outlook and the economy just a year ago.
cheers,
shamba
I have decided that all of the signs of the Big Day of Reckconing/downfall of fossifuel society/modern society/The Shit Hitting the Fan--is NOW! My readings in Doom have become main stream current events!
So, many things that I’ve been reading about for the past 3 ½ years were still “over the horizon.” Now, they are easily visible on the horizon and they’ve got us pretty well surrounded! Food prices, energy prices, gas prices, still bad drought in the US West, bees still in low supply this spring, no salmon fishing AT ALL on the west coast because of too small salmon populations—this is commercial fishing, too. Then there’s the daily business world in my state which probably applies to most other states these days: contracting economy, local governments budgets cut this year and facing more severe ones in the next year after that, property taxes revenue falling because of the shrinking housing market ….. which still shows no sign of bottoming out yet. Too much inventory and it’s growing because of foreclosures, new constructions finishing, etc.
In the NBC broadcast news this evening:
Airlines are cutting back severely on scheduled flights for the rest of the year; or after summer vacations. It’s just too expensive to keep flying the current schedules with the price of oil and their fuel needs. Major airports will have cutbacks in carriers and some smaller places will end up with very few carriers, even if they have been regional jets. Two years ago on The Oildrum.com I read some comment about an airline worker(?) at a conference remarking that in 10 years no planes will be flying at all, at least no commercial airlines.
GM is closing 4 plants that make SUV stuff; and they may discontinue the Hummer model! Hummers’ were quite the thing to have the past few years. Truck and SUV sales have not been good since the first of the year.
Quote from: Truck Sales Sink, Shaking Up Auto Market
Big Three Walloped By the Rush to Cars; Honda on the Rise
By JOSÉE VALCOURT and MATTHEW DOLANJune 4, 2008; Page B5 from WSJ
"Ford Motor Co.'s F-150 pickup truck has been the No. 1 seller almost every month over the past three decades. But in May, as consumers flocked to fuel-sipping models, two cars from Toyota and two from Honda Motor Co. outsold the F-150, pushing it down to the No. 5 spot in sales."
Electric cars are in the news again; or they seem to be more in the news to me.
There is some market in electricity prices—forward market?—that shows the fluctuations in electricity supply and prices. These fluctuations don’t appear on customer’s energy bills but it can predict the rise or fall of prices. There was a spike in this prices/supply in Mar/April and it showed a “75%” possible increase in electricity prices this summer. I don’t know if this applies to the whole US or what. It was in the WSJ on June 3 or 4th. I’ll try to find the link to it.
At least the **** Democratic primaries are over! Senator Obama looks like a definite for the Demo nominee; but I wouldn’t rule out senator Clinton trying something eve at the last minute to try again to get the position herself.
It seems quite a turnaround from the way things stood in public discourse and the national outlook and the economy just a year ago.
cheers,
shamba
Sunday, May 25, 2008
what am I afraid of?
Of getting old, dying the usual stuff--certainly being incapacitated and not able to take care of my life and myself.
But mostly I think I fear a furture without communication--no email, no snail mail, no phone, no internet no any of the ways I've learned to keep informed, in touch and knowing how my friends and family and others I know are doing.
that's enough for today, tomorrow will bring new fears or some of the same ol ones.
cheers,
shamba
But mostly I think I fear a furture without communication--no email, no snail mail, no phone, no internet no any of the ways I've learned to keep informed, in touch and knowing how my friends and family and others I know are doing.
that's enough for today, tomorrow will bring new fears or some of the same ol ones.
cheers,
shamba
test
Okay, whatever i did this time it worked.
I didn't wait long enough for them to load and
I didn't wait long enough for them to load and
so I could click "done". Have to play with layout
to see how I like them.
Memorial Day Weekend
We've had rain and cool weather the past 4 days. It's been great but we'll be back to triple digits by next weekend I imagine.
The last month, I've just felt very sad about life in general.
Omar never came back, but all the others appear to be okay. This seems to hurt terribly more than any other cat I've ever lost. :(
K. i still in custody, next hearing in July. I guess I should be there. No matter what I do I can't keep out of his clutches--clutches meaning ekeing or sucking money out of me. He was in the hospital for 10 days due to something he had--but he's getting better. His lawyer says everyone he's talked to is willing to write letters for references but not to sign for money.
That car of his will be the big problem and I'll be stuck with how to fix it. I just don't want to go to the hearing but I can't leave R. and her family stuck with the car problem. Maybe it will have to be impounded and hauled away somewhere.
C. is still lost in her intentions to "find a job" but who knows?
so, I have to pull myself out of this depressive funk and go on. My mom is doing well and still holding her own. I'm beginning to feel more and more like "Where was I before I was so rudely interrupted by my brother 3 months ago ...?"
1. Storage is completely emptied since last post so that bill is gone! Yeah!
2. Took last of "stuff" to St. Vincent DePaul or Goodwill.
3. Made a new recipe this week, it came out well.
4. Finished reorganizing kitchen so I don't have anything "hidden" at the back of the cupboards--or at least not as much.
Where I used to work, the budget is very tight, worse than anythingn I saw when I was workingn there for 11 years. Hope that at least stays the same for the next couple of years for everyone I know still there.
Oh, Yeah, New Zealand trip has been pushed back a bit due to recent events but not CANCELLED--I'll make it there yet. On that positive note, I will say ... cheers!
shamba
The last month, I've just felt very sad about life in general.
Omar never came back, but all the others appear to be okay. This seems to hurt terribly more than any other cat I've ever lost. :(
K. i still in custody, next hearing in July. I guess I should be there. No matter what I do I can't keep out of his clutches--clutches meaning ekeing or sucking money out of me. He was in the hospital for 10 days due to something he had--but he's getting better. His lawyer says everyone he's talked to is willing to write letters for references but not to sign for money.
That car of his will be the big problem and I'll be stuck with how to fix it. I just don't want to go to the hearing but I can't leave R. and her family stuck with the car problem. Maybe it will have to be impounded and hauled away somewhere.
C. is still lost in her intentions to "find a job" but who knows?
so, I have to pull myself out of this depressive funk and go on. My mom is doing well and still holding her own. I'm beginning to feel more and more like "Where was I before I was so rudely interrupted by my brother 3 months ago ...?"
1. Storage is completely emptied since last post so that bill is gone! Yeah!
2. Took last of "stuff" to St. Vincent DePaul or Goodwill.
3. Made a new recipe this week, it came out well.
4. Finished reorganizing kitchen so I don't have anything "hidden" at the back of the cupboards--or at least not as much.
Where I used to work, the budget is very tight, worse than anythingn I saw when I was workingn there for 11 years. Hope that at least stays the same for the next couple of years for everyone I know still there.
Oh, Yeah, New Zealand trip has been pushed back a bit due to recent events but not CANCELLED--I'll make it there yet. On that positive note, I will say ... cheers!
shamba
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